Brad Carson in Newsweek

On Principles & Values: Member of Cherokee Nation; descendant of “Trail of Tears”

Carson, 37, is a young man in a hurry to make a difference. He was elected to Congress in 2000, and earlier this year announced he was running for the Senate seat vacated by Republican Don Nickles. A sixth-generation Oklahoman, Carson is the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. His mother’s family arrived in the state on the “Trail of Tears,” the forced march that was part of the federal government’s Indian removal policy. Now, 166 years later, the blond-haired, blue-eyed Carson is only one-eighth Cherokee Indian, but he is a proud member of the Cherokee nation. His father was a career employee of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and he grew up living on a series of Navajo reservations.

If Carson wins his bid for the Senate, he would succeed the retiring Colorado Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as the only Native American in Congress.

Source: Eleanor Clift, Newsweek Apr 30, 2004

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